Apple had a blockbuster
Q3 thanks to strong sales of its iPhone, iPads, and
Mac computers. The Cupertino, California-based company was able to
reel in revenue and profits of $15.7 billion and $3.25 billion
respectively.

Apple is looking to keep its winning
streak alive with a few updated products. Today saw updates to the iMac and Mac Pro product families along with a new Bluetooth-based accessory.

The new
iMac family is still available in 21.5" and 27" screen
sizes, but firepower for the entire line has been increased. The Core
2 Duo processors have been ditched on the base configurations in
favor of dual-core Intel Core i3 processors.

21.5" iMacs start out with an Intel Core i3 processor running at 3.06GHz and can be optioned with
a Core i5 processor running at 3.6GHz. The 27" iMacs start out
with a 3.2GHz Core i3 processor and top out at a quad-core Core i7
running at 2.93GHz.

“We took the world’s best
all-in-one and made it even better,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s
senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “With the
latest processors, high-performance graphics and signature aluminum
and glass design, customers are going to love the latest iMac.”

The new iMacs start at $1,199 for the
21.5" model and $1,699 for the 27" model.

To complement Apple's new iMacs, a new
Magic
Trackpad accessory has been announced. This Bluetooth-based
accessory operates exactly like the trackpad found on MacBook,
MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro notebooks. It retails for $69.

Also seeing an update after a long,
stagnant period is Apple's
Mac Pro. The Mac Pro is now available with quad- and six-core
Intel Xeon processors running at 3.33GHz. When equipped with two
processors, Apple's newest Mac Pros boast up to 12 physical cores and
up to 24 virtual cores with Hyper-Threading.

“The new Mac Pro is the most powerful
and configurable Mac we’ve ever made,” said Schiller added. “With
up to 12 cores, the new Mac Pro outperforms our previous
top-of-the-line system by up to 50 percent, and with over a billion
possible configurations, our customers can create exactly the system
they want.”

The default graphics card on the new Mac Pros is now an ATI Radeon HD 5770 while a Radeon HD 5870 is optional. Another option that will surely set you back a pretty penny is a quad-512MB SSD array.

The new Mac Pros start at $2,499.

One final addition to Apple's new product onslaught is the new 27" Cinema Display. This beauty packs a screen resolution of 2560x1440, an iSight camera, MagSafe connector for your MacBook, and a three-port USB hub. Naturally, all of this doesn't come cheap -- the new display retails for $999.

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Thanks for your little rant (that for the record made your sound like a child).

My point still stands, look at what those gestures map too and how many fingers/movesments you have to perform said gestures.

Using your little ALT Tab as an example; do you not keep at least one hand on or very close to your keyboard when on a desktop? If not thats your preference, but the fact remains many people do, my left hand is always on the keyboard. So are you actually going to imply its easier to swipe 4 fingers (i don't care how you do it, whether its dramatic or not) than pressing two buttons where my hand is alreay lying?

With a laptop then by all means it makes perfect sense, i rest my hands on the trackpad and only move up to the keyboard to type (not too sure about others), but once again, on a desktop to make the claim that it is more efficient just does not make sense to me.

Gestures make sense in many situations, but they also make little sense in many others. So to completely get rid of a mouse for a trackpad on a desktop makes little sense to me. Seems a mix of both would be the best solution.

Depending on the program used (as Windows users have a wider variety of programs that aren't made by Apple) for zoom. You can use the scroll wheel to zoom in/out. In IE, you can press ctrl+scroll wheel to zoom in/out.

I use ACDSee, where I just the scroll wheel lets me move to next image. I can hold ctrl+scroll wheel to zoom in/out. I use a side button to rotate image.

My mouse has left click, right click, scroll wheel, scroll wheel click, 3 buttons to change dpi, quick launch button, and also records macros. It has a screen to display dpi, has feet that you can change, also adjust the weight.Hell, I can set my mouse to automatically sort through a folder of images, resize them all, and save them.